USS San Jacinto (CG-56)

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USS San Jacinto on 6 June 2012
History
United States
NameSan Jacinto
NamesakeBattle of San Jacinto
Ordered20 June 1983
BuilderIngalls Shipbuilding
Laid down24 July 1985
Launched14 November 1986
Commissioned23 January 1988
HomeportNorfolk
Identification
MottoVictory is Certain
Nickname(s)San Jac
Statusin active service
BadgeUSS San Jacinto CG-56 Crest.png
General characteristics
Class and type Ticonderoga-class cruiser
DisplacementApprox. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load
Length567 feet (173 m)
Beam55 feet (16.8 meters)
Draft34 feet (10.2 meters)
Propulsion
Speed32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement30 officers and 300 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems
  • AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar
  • AN/SPS-49 air search radar
  • AN/SPG-62 fire control radar
  • surface search radar
  • AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar
  • AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
  • AN/SQQ-89(V)1/3 - A(V)15 Sonar suite, consisting of:
    • AN/SQS-53B/C/D active sonar
    • AN/SQR-19 TACTAS, AN/SQR-19B ITASS, & MFTA passive sonar
    • AN/SQQ-28 light airborne multi-purpose system
Armament
Aircraft carried2 × Sikorsky SH-60B or MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.

USS San Jacinto (CG-56) is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy. She is named for the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.

Construction[]

San Jacinto was laid down on 24 July 1985, by Ingalls Shipbuilding, in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was launched on 11 November 1986, and commissioned 23 January 1988, [1] by then vice-president George H. W. Bush in Houston, Texas.

Service history[]

She completed her fitting out and work-ups, then deployed to the Mediterranean Sea in late May 1989, returning in November. While San Jacinto and her sister ship Leyte Gulf were underway off the Virginia coast, performing testing of CEC, the Iraqi army invaded and occupied Kuwait. The next day, Leyte Gulf detached and headed back to Mayport, Florida. The day after, San Jacinto returned to her homeport of Norfolk, Virginia, to prepare for the massive armada to the Middle East.[citation needed]

After CINCLANT had all their ships provisioned, barely five days later, San Jacinto headed for the Mediterranean. Other ships in the battle group included the cruiser Philippine Sea and the aircraft carriers America and John F. Kennedy.[citation needed]

She fired the opening shots of Operation Desert Storm with the launch of two BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles, firing a total of 16 missiles during the 43-day war. She was also the first ship of her class to be deployed with a full load of 122 missiles.[2] While stationed in a search area at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula in the Red Sea, her Visit, Boarding, Search & Seizure (VBSS) teams inspected several dozen ships for contraband being smuggled for the Iraqi government.[citation needed]

During her 2000-2001 deployment with Carrier Group Two, she deployed with Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron Light 42 (HSL-42) Det 8 with two SH-60B Seahawks.[3] [4]

On 26 May 2010, San Jacinto's VBSS team rescued five Yemenis hostages from 13 suspected pirates. The master stated his dhow had been under pirate control for one day only. The VBSS team detained the pirates on the dhow without conflict.[5]

On 13 October 2012, San Jacinto was involved in a collision with U.S. nuclear submarine Montpelier off the coast of northeastern Florida.[6] The cruiser suffered damage to her sonar dome.[7] San Jacinto would have been unable to join Carrier Strike Group Ten and aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman to the Persian Gulf, had they deployed on schedule, due to the emergency dry docking.[8] The cruiser has undergone approximately $11 million in repairs since the accident.[9]

In 2020, San Jacinto and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), while on deployment together, became the first U.S. Navy ships to exceed 160 consecutive days at sea.[10]

In December 2020 the U.S. Navy's Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels stated that the ship was planned to be placed Out of Commission in Reserve in 2022.[11]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Yarnall, Paul R. (12 October 2020). "USS SAN JACINTO (CG 56)". Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  2. ^ Meisner, Arnold (1991). Desert Storm: Sea War. Motorbooks International. pp. 49. ISBN 0-87938-562-6.
  3. ^ Toppan, Andrew (10 March 2003). "World Navies Today: US Navy Aircraft Carriers & Surface Combatants". Hazegray.org. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  4. ^ Curtis A. Utz and Mark L. Evans (July–August 2002). "The Year in Review 2003, Part 2" (PDF). Naval Aviation News. Washington, DC: U.S. Navy. p. 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2004. Retrieved 22 August 2010. LAMPS MK III Major Ship Deployments, 2001
  5. ^ "US Ship Rescues Yemeni Mariners From Pirates". navy.mil. 30 May 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Navy Says Submarine, Aegis Cruiser Collide". The New York Times. Associated Press. 13 October 2012.[dead link]
  7. ^ Martinez, Luis (13 October 2012). "Navy Sub, Cruiser Collide Off Florida". ABC News. Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012.
  8. ^ American Forces Press Service (6 February 2013). "USS Truman, USS Gettysburg Deployment Delayed". American Forces Press Service. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  9. ^ Reilly, Corinne (17 June 2014). "'Sub, dead ahead!' New Navy report dissects collision at sea". The Virginian-Pilot. Stars and Stripes. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  10. ^ Keating, Chris (3 July 2020). "navy sailor from lycoming county makes history". WNEP-TV. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels" (PDF). Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. 9 December 2020. p. 16. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

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